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TED speakers do take questions from the people in the audience and there is a comments section on the TED website, videos usually get lots of discussion. Some
by kirsebaer 11y ago
TED speakers do take questions from the people in the audience and there is a comments section on the TED website, videos usually get lots of discussion.
Some nice things about TED/TEDx:
* They have made intellectual talks "cool".
* Video equivalent of a Scientific American article.
* Encourages people to give short entertaining talks instead of 40 min powerpoint "presentations".
* With TEDx anyone has the opportunity to get onto the TED website.
People on HN complain about the crazy cost of attending a TED conference, but this is just a networking/conspicuous-consumption event for rich people -- is that any different than $10k charity dinners?
- mr_luc 11y agoInteresting. I think, boiled down, that it's purely the exalted tone at TED talks that really grates on me (and it seems a good number of others). Intellectual talks may not have always been cool, but they rarely used to sound like preaching.